Minuscule 266

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Minuscule 266
Text	Gospels
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Found	1718, Paul Lucas
Now at	National Library of France
Size	24.2 cm by 16.6 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	full marginalia

Minuscule 266 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1393 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[2] The manuscript has complex contents. It has full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 282 parchment leaves (24.2 cm by 16.6 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page.^[2]

The text is divided according to numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 237 - the last in 16:15), but there is no references to the Eusebian Canons.^[3]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), synaxaria, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden suggested that it is related to the textual families Π^a and Π^b.^[4] Aland placed it in Category V.^[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Π266 in Luke 1 and Luke 20 (close to 593). In Luke 10 no profile was made.^[4]

History

The manuscripts was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).^[6] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.^[7] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 67) at Paris.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 57. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n67/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 63. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 173. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n185/mode/2up. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 58. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
5. ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland, transl. Erroll F. Rhodes (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. 
6. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 225. 
7. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 57